North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has called on his country’s military to focus all efforts on completing war preparations, state news agency KCNA reported on Monday. KCNA reported Kim as describing the Korean peninsula as “the world’s biggest hotspot,” in a speech delivered to battalion commanders in Pyongyang on Friday. Kim

CHICAGO – You don’t have to travel far to get a taste of France in Chicago. One weekend in November, the halls of Lycee Francais School are transformed into a market to kick off the holiday season. “It’s grown so much and yeah, it’s like people from outside state come now,” said vendor Barbara Sawyer, […]

On Sunday, Russia launched a drone and missile attack on Ukraine in what’s being seen as the largest barrage in recent months, officials said. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky posted on the social platform X that Russia used nearly 140 missiles of “various types” over the last week, as well as more than 900 “guided aerial […]

Israeli police and the domestic intelligence service Shin Bet have detained three individuals suspected of firing flares at the private residence of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, local media reported on Sunday. A court ordered the suspects be held in detention for five days pending the ongoing investigation into Saturday’s incident, the

German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius said he supports Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s phone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin, despite criticism from NATO allies and Kiev. “There is no talk of peace with Putin at the moment, and yet we must keep trying and at the same time support Ukraine,” he told the public broadcas